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Bomb Aimer's Notes
Aircraft code 'G'.
On the reverse are calculations.
Target is…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; V-1; V-weapon
Bomb Aimer's Notes
Aircraft code 'G'.
On the reverse are…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Oboe; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon
Navigator's Warning List
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; navigator; Oboe; target indicator
Eric Horsham Flight Engineer
Letter to John Madge's wife listing the other members of the crew that were lost
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
Strike to defend
Tags: 5 Group; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; debriefing; ditching; flight engineer; Holocaust; Lancaster; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Wyton; searchlight; target indicator; target photograph; wireless operator
Pathfinder crew
Target Essen
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Leslie Pulfrey
Extracts from George Royall's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Interview with John Martin
Tags: 14 OTU; 166 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Eric Coling
Interview with Eric Parker
Tags: 12 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; displaced person; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lincoln; Master Bomber; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Marham; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington; York
Half a Life, Half Remembered
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 2 Group; 3 Group; 311 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 7 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harrow; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; incendiary device; Lancaster; love and romance; Magister; Manchester; Me 109; Me 110; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; observer; Operational Training Unit; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; radar; RAF Benson; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Catterick; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Debden; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Grantham; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Honington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manston; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF Sealand; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; RAF Warmwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with George Royall
Tags: 166 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; entertainment; fear; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; observer; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Kirmington; searchlight; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Violet Bishop
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; evacuation; ground personnel
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); faith; fear; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1678 HCU; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Andreas; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Remembering sixty years ago
Reminiscence of a Flight Engineer's Night to Remember 55 Years Ago
Sqn Ldr G G Whittle, DFM
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF West Freugh; shot down; training; Wellington
A short history of 640 Squadron
There is also a…
Tags: 4 Group; 617 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bouncing bomb; debriefing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; love and romance; memorial; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; operations room; pilot; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; wireless operator
1st Allied Airplane Crashed in Haute-Marne, Bomber Halifax Mk II DT515
Tags: 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; escaping; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Linton on Ouse; Resistance; wireless operator